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 | 104k | Model of the name sake Connecticut class (BB-18) and her five sisters: Louisiana (BB-19), Vermont (BB-20), Kansas (BB-21), Minnesota (BB-22), New Hampshire (BB-25), as built, dated 23 March 1928. | Photo from National Archives & Record Administration (NARA), Record Group RG-19N, Box 33. Courtesy of Dan Treadwell. | |
 | 577k | Secretary of the Navy (SECNAV) the Honorable Dr. Donald C. Winter takes a tour of a "Great White Fleet" exhibition at Grand Central Station on 11 Oct. 2008. The exhibit commemorates the 100th anniversary of the Great White Fleet which includes models of battleships, artifacts and memorabilia from Sailors aboard the ships and photo displays that tell the of the historical naval mission.
Pictured is a model of the name sake Connecticut class (BB-18) and her five sisters: Louisiana (BB-19), Vermont (BB-20), Kansas (BB-21), Minnesota (BB-22) & New Hampshire (BB-25). | US Navy photo # N-5549O-006 by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Kevin S. O'Brien, courtesy of navy.news.mil. | |
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197k | Kansas's (BB-21) Sponsor, Miss Anna Hoch, with her parents and Maid of Honor at the launching ceremonies, 12 August 1905. Kansas was built by the New York Shipbuilding Corp. at Camden, New Jersey.
Those present are (from left to right): Miss Ora Allen, Maid of Honor; Mrs. E.W. Hoch, mother of the Sponsor; Miss Anna Hoch; and The Honorable E.W. Hoch, Governor of Kansas and father of the Sponsor. Miss Anna Hoch, sponsor and daughter of the Governor of Kansas, used a bottle of water from the John Brown Spring in Linn County to christen the ship. Kansas being a prohibition state at the time accounted for this deviation from custom. Observers reported the day of the event was "warm and sultry" and the guests at the ceremony "suffered from the heat during several vexatious delays." |
Photo courtesy of phillyseaport.org. & submitted by Bill Gonyo. Partial text courtesy of USNHC # NH 52236. | |
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114k | Making 18.294 knots while running trials in 1906. Photographed by N.L. Stebbins, Boston, Massachusetts. Note that the ship's 7-inch broadside guns have not yet been installed. | USNHC # NH 61136. | |
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118k | Newly commissioned, 1907. | National Archives / USN. | |
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70k | Photographed soon after completion, circa 1907. | USNHC # NH 83959. | |
 | 112k | Chart from a contemporary newspaper, showing the route to be taken by the Atlantic Fleet's battleships and their associated Torpedo Flotilla, from their December 1907 departure from Hampton Roads, Virginia, until their planned arrival at San Francisco, California, in the spring of 1908. Text below the chart indicates that it was published in mid-December 1907. | U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 106219. Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation, Washington, D.C. Collection of Rear Admiral Harold M. Bemis. | |
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345k | The "Great White Fleet" steaming in column, probably while departing Hampton Roads, Virginia, at the start of their cruise around the World, December 1907. Kansas (BB-21) is at left, followed by Vermont (BB-20). | USN photo # N-0000X-001 courtesy of navy.mil. Photographed by C.E. Waterman, Hampton, Va. | |
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70k | Kansas (BB-21), probably during the World Cruise of the "Great White Fleet", 1907-09. | Photo courtesy of Robert Hurst. | |
 | 112k | Chart from a contemporary newspaper, showing the route of the Atlantic Fleet's battleships from their 29 January 1907 departure from Trinidad until their arrival at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on 12 January 1908. It emphasizes the offshore course taken to avoid strong westerly currents off the northeastern coast of South America. | U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 106221. Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation, Washington, D.C. Collection of Rear Admiral Harold M. Bemis. | |
 | 290k | The "Great White Fleet" in the Straits of Magellan, 1908, from a painting by Henry Reuterdahl. | Photograph courtesy of Pieter Bakels. | |
 | 129k | Chart from a contemporary newspaper, showing the movements of the Atlantic Fleet's battleships from their 8 February 1908 passage of the western part of the Straits of Magellan until their arrival at Callao, Peru, on 20 February 1908. | U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 106227b. Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation, Washington, D.C. Collection of Rear Admiral Harold M. Bemis. | |
 | 185k | The Connecticut (BB-18) leading the other fifteen warships of the "Great White Fleet" into Magdalena Bay, Mexico on 12 March 1908 to take on coal and hold long-delayed target practice. | U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH-59537, courtesy of Robert M. Cieri. | |
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507k | The fleet at San Diego, Calif., 5, May 1908. What looks like two Connecticut (BB-18 / 22 -25) class battleships to the left; a Virginia (BB-13 / 17) class battleship in the center with what might be three other Connecticut class battleships in the immeadiate distance; two Illinois (BB-7 / 9) class battleships are on the right corner, behind them are the two Kearsarge (BB-5) class battleships and a Virginia or Connecticut class battleship in the right corner of the photo. |
Library of Congress photo # pan 6a33626,by W. D. Lambert; submitted by Tom Kermen. | |
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573k | Atlantic Fleet entering Golden Gate 6th May 1908. | Library of Congress photo # pan 6a33669, from the Panoramic View Co., Chas. Z. Bailey, Mgr., Los Angeles, Cal. submitted by Tom Kermen. | |
 | 139k | The Connecticut (BB-18) leading the "Great White Fleet" into San Francisco Bay on 6 May 1908. The original photo was taken by C.E. Waterman. | U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH-59537, courtesy of Robert M. Cieri. | |
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196k | Kansas (BB-21) is the second battleship in the left corner of this panoramic photo of the "Great White Fleet" entering San Francisco harbor, May 1908. | Library of Congress photo courtesy of chinfo.navy.mil. Submitted by Michael Kirby. | |
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155k | Panoramic photograph by the Pillsbury Picture Company showing the review of the "Great White Fleet" on 17 May 1908 by Secretary of the Navy Victor A. Metcalf, embarked in Yorktown (PG-1), which is steaming toward the left in the right center of the image. Three destroyers are in the line nearest to the camera (from left to center), with either Hopkins (DD-6) or Hull (DD-7) in the center and Lawrence (DD-8) next astern. Eleven battleships are present, in the rows on the opposite side of Yorktown's course, and seven Pacific Fleet armored cruisers are in the most distant row. | Photo # NH 105310, from the collections of the U.S. Naval Historical Center. | |
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664k | Kansas (BB-21) in a California port, 1908. The photo is from a collection called "California Reception to the Fleet 1908. | USN photo courtesy of Darryl Baker. | |
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50k | Kansas (BB-21) during the World Cruise of the "Great White Fleet", 1907-09, in Sydney Harbor, Australia, in late August 1908. | Photo courtesy of Warren McLean. | |
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101k | Kansas (BB-21) in a China Sea typhoon, 1908. | USN photo courtesy of David S. Smith. | |
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66k | Crewmen scrubbing hammocks on the forecastle, during the cruise around the World, 1908. Note 12"/45 guns and man inside the winch cover (in center). | USNHC # NH 82774. | |
 | 99k | Commanding officers of most of the fleet's ships, photographed in 1908. Those present include (Seated, left to right): Captain Hugo Osterhaus, of Connecticut (BB-18); Captain Kossuth Niles, of Louisiana (BB-19); Captain William P. Potter, of Vermont (BB-20); Captain John Hubbard, of Minnesota (BB-22); Captain Joseph B. Murdock, of Rhode Island (BB-17); Captain Charles E. Vreeland, of Kansas (BB-21). Standing, left to right): Captain Hamilton Hutchins, of Kearsarge (BB-05); Captain Frank E. Beatty, of Wisconsin (BB-09); Captain Reginald F. Nicholson, of Nebraska (BB-14); Captain Thomas B. Howard, of Ohio (BB-12); Captain William H.H. Southerland, of New Jersey (BB-16); Captain Walter C. Cowles, of Kentucky (BB-06); Captain John M. Bowyer, of Illinois (BB-07); Captain Alexander Sharp, of Virginia (BB-13); Lieutenant Commander Charles B. McVay, of Yankton. | USNHC # NH 59552. | |
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133k | Print after a sketch by T. Dart Walker, entitled "Christmas Eve in the United States Navy". Its original caption reads: "Giving the famous Highland toast and song for sweethearts and wives. Wherever Uncle Sam's fighting ships are stationed throughout the world, it is the custom of the officers to rise, as here depicted, at the conclusion of the Christmas Eve festivities in honor of the absent home folks. This sketch was made by the noted marine artist, T. Dart Walker, while crossing the Arabian Sea on board the battleship ' Kansas (BB-21)'." | Photo USNHC # NH 52239 courtesy ofthe Naval Historical Foundation, Cohen Collection. | |
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63k | Kansas (BB-21), with the Abarenda (Collier No. 13) along her port side, at Gibraltar, circa late January or early February 1909. Photographed from on board another of the Fleet's battleships. Several others are in the background. The original image is printed on post card stock. | US Naval Historical Centre Photo # NH 106167. Donation of Mrs. Ruth Mayfield, 1973. | |
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104k | Post card welcoming the "Great White Fleet" to Australia, circa August-September 1908. | U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 106181-KN. Courtesy of Mrs. Ruth Mayfield, 1973. | |
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100k | Postcard published in Japan to commemorate the U.S. Atlantic Fleet's visit there in October 1908. This card features pictures of the Fleet's sixteen battleships, plus images of three Japanese ladies, plus flags and symbols of the United States and Japan. | U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 106114-KN. Collection of Chief Quartermaster John Harold. | |
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106k | Postcard published in Japan to commemorate the U.S. Atlantic Fleet's visit there in October 1908. This embossed card features a broadside view of a Connecticut class battleship and the message "Welcome American Fleet". | U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 106121-KN. Collection of Chief Quartermaster John Harold. | |
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91k | Kansas (BB-21) illuminated with electric lights while at anchor at Villefranche, France during the World cruise of the "Great White Fleet" circa January 1909. The original image is printed on post card ("AZO") stock. | U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 106202. Collection of Edward Perry, donated by Captain Ralph C. McCoy, USN (Retired), 1974. | |
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109k | One of the Fleet's Connecticut class battleships at Villefranche, France in 1909. | US Naval Historical Center Photo # NH 106137. Collection of Chief Quartermaster John Harold. | |
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124k | Captain Charles J. Badger commanded the battleship Kansas (BB-21) from 1909-11. | Digital ID: # ggbain 15455. Source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Photo courtesy of Bill Gonyo. | |
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80k | Kansas (BB-21) in an East Coast harbour, circa 1909. The original photograph belonged to the donor's mother, Mrs May Arnold Volz, who had received it from Richard Smith, a member of the Kansas crew. | US Naval Historical Centre Photo # NH 104037. Donation of Jean L. Volz, 2006 & submitted by Robert Hurst. | |
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96k | Entering drydock in Philadelphia, 1909. | LOC / USN photo. | |
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66k | Kansas (BB-21) in port in Philadelphia, circa 1909. | Courtesy of Michael Hughes. | |
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789k | Steam rises from the rear smoke stack of Kansas (BB-21) as the crew and ship pose for this 1909 photo probably at the Philadelphia Navy Yard for overhaulat the end of Feb. 1909. Repairs completed 17 June, the battleship began a period of maneuvers, tactical training, and battle practice which lasted almost until the close of the following year. | Photo by William H. Rau from "Our Navy", published by the L.H. Nelson Co., Portland, Maine in 1917, courtesy of David Johnston (USNR). Photo added 11/05/09. | |
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93k | Battleships anchored in the Hudson River, off 145th Street, New York City, during the Hudson-Fulton Celebration, 25 Sept - 9 Oct. 1909. Photograph by Thaddeus Wilkerson, 522 W. 145th St., New York, reproduced on a postal card.
Ships present are (from left to right): Louisiana (BB-19); Idaho (BB-24); Kansas (BB-21); Vermont (BB-20) & Connecticut (BB-18). Identification on the first two listed is certain. That on the last three is probable. |
USNHC # NH 91471, Courtesy of Jack Howland, 1980. | |
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